Interview - an interview with musician Visual ^ Extreme (Sergei Agapov).

  Visual ^ Extreme: interview

      Visual ^ Extreme (Sergei Agapov)

       Questions are asked by Alone Coder.

Q> At the request of workers you have selected as a desirable 
object for an interview IG # 6. To answer questions?

A> Of course ... np ... And what kind of animal this
IG # 6? And then I did from life behind ...
Q> [skip]
Naturally, since I have all the views
changed, though, because in the past 3 years I've read hardly 
any more than at any other time. IG # 5 is on

zx.da.ru/press/inferno/inferno5.zip
The letter screenshot ...
A> Ok, looked :-) I remember this time. As
again in 1997 - 1998 was a boom all electronic media, when 
Moscow ZX-Net has worked with might and main. By that time the 
newspaper OLDMAN'a already broken up, and sorry ...

Q> Yes, this regularity is almost unattainable. I have an 
average monthly newspaper, but time very moving.

Interestingly, in Minsk at the same time was
boom in the same izdaniy.I Ming for some reason I
like most:) And no one tried to find in Moscow lost issue of 
the newspaper Modern? (Networks and collections can be found

on the strength of one number). Other newspapers like the
would be a sufficient set.
A> Maybe someone and tried. Or maybe just a
one room, and then bent edition ...
Q> Comnitelno to have started from the sixteenth numbers:)
A> Well, who knows them both, incidentally, very
convenient delat.Vrode as already formed team =)
Q> And about the authors themselves (The Left and IM3) that
you could remember the fun?

Q> And here is an interesting question: Why, in your
opinion, in Moscow in similar situations spread ZX-Net and 
electronic media for ZX producing fewer games than in Minsk?

A> In Moscow, creative spektrumisty started
die out first thing, do not forget eto.Polzovateley ZX-Net, may 
have been sufficient and, but the doers of people already 
almost gone. Q> Why? What is the difference in the atmosphere 
of Moscow, do you think? Minsk is also the capital, largest 
city ... A> Just in Moscow pisyuki become available

Several earlier than in other cities.

Q> fiction in the magazine more net.Vmesto in this application 
is put on the number fanzine careful and Nikolaev "200" in the 
original envelope, with typos, in paints, etc. Texts about 
programming (eg, the reykasting, was written by 3d game - 
Wolf2004 - 1-e place on CC'04; discussed the draft language

Coloss - seems to be the first major publication
on it), the processing of information (already dismantled the 
bones formats Hrust, Rip, Rar etc., were written informal 
analogues Packaging these formats), the other math (assorted 
square algorithm root and fastest ways to build fractals), of 
iron (TV standards, basic electrical circuits work schedules), 
music (was a special virtual components in two etapa.V 1 st 
round you, for example, in absentia, won the 17 th out of 680, 
and in 2-m 18-s of the 908:)). Oh, and, accordingly,

There is a section interviews, analysis of email, software,
their programs, all sorts of thoughts, etc.
A> Cool :-) capacious enough edition
happened. :-) I'll have to download, see ...
Q> Emulator recommend Unreal Speccy 0.22
by SMT, all on zx.da.ru. I zx.da.ru
on sidyukah 3 copies of varying degrees
Antiquity:) Yes, I said a summary of more than one room, while 
the last two. Another of the interesting things in # 4 was 
modeling historical situation of March 2000

Samara, on the example of newspapers Born Dead # 0G. (In
normally an Internet magazine is without newspapers, literary 
supplement, and the three articles, so that the paper easier to 
find separately.) Some comrades believe that this is the 
original number. Others drifted blurt it arrogant poddelka.A 
actually a model, and in collaboration with the Monster / Sage, 
MMCM / Sage and Jerri / AF ...


Q> 1. Why such a name -
Visual?
A> Before answering this question, please note - it ViSuAl.
That was in 1996 when I first got
in MagicSoft. I then had the nickname
ASN, and our inspirer MagiC found it banal. :-) It was a 
Saturday, when we often gathered at the radio market in 
Mitino.Togda same at this meeting was an acquaintance, I hope 
you Mac Buster, a large black t-shirt, on which in large print

was written in VISUAL (and there is something else). AND
I liked that word, it's very me
came up, and the nickname stuck very fast to
me.
Q> Although it is familiar to me, but I did, radishes,
Even the name-the name could not find out what
address and telephone number ... And I'm twice this summer
was in Moscow for a couple days and called all in a row ... 
Enlighten his name, where to look? Probably to hide does not 
make sense:) A> You know, if he did not say, therefore, not

wanted to hang out. :-) I can say that
his name is Alexander Samsonov, he married
this summer. It's easy to find in an Internet,
in ICQ, naprimer.Kogda then he called another SAV
soft, a derivative of the name, just like me ASN
:-)))
Q> Track (. Pt2) "TO INTRO OF BRIDGE! * ASN *"
yours?
A> Yeah, it was my first work for Magic Soft'a. For their game 
'Bridge'. In my first half of 1996 was a lot of music under 
this name. Q> I found ... But it will not work: (

That is not the firmware, or protection in the loader ... Who 
are MMM and IZ-Soft? What about them know?

A> is a former MagicSoft. As far as I
I know, more to scene without.
One of them is an admin works, another very
have not seen.

Q> 2. You wrote the music, or just under AY
under the YM chip?
A> I have something, and it was. But mostly
by YAMAHA. Argue which one is better
- Not budu.Kazhdy remarkable in its own way :-).

Q> 3. Do you have stayed alive ZX? What?
A> Alive? Yes, but only without Claudia :-) This
GrandRomMax, Tower. Lies in shkafu.Ne know
I'll include it yet ... I use emulators ZX.

Q> 4. In your full collection of music (which is in the archive 
Tr_Songs Sergey Bulba) there are really all the tracks, or

some do not (unfinished, early, etc?)
A> If we are talking about 3 drives in one of the
which is a collection of my music, but on the other two albums, 
then I do not vse.U 2.5 drive some tunes, 2 albums, as well as 
digital music :-) Q> When it sees the public? :)

A> As soon as I get to the site. The point
that I am not very good designer, and layout pages take a long 
time, which, alas, is now quite malo.Dlya ZX music I want to 
make a separate podstranichku, so as not to frighten her casual 
visitors :-))))

Q> / history / ym / ... :)
In fact, I was not referring to the site, and compendium. 
Site-I, for example, never to watch something I will not - I do 
not go to internet ... A> For reasons of principle? =)

Q> Practically yes:) I have fido and takes 4 hours a day: (
A> I see. =)

Q> 5. What event made you stop writing music and AY, 
respectively, to release this collection? A> Stop - 
vremya.Seychas was it much smaller than previously. A book 
released because they do not want my work disappeared. All that 
I was not ashamed to give, give. I do not mind :-) Q> This 
termination occurred as soon as you change jobs (from when to 
what?), or after a certain period of time (what?). For 
statistics:) A> As the institute has become uchitsya.K addition,

Then I got an Amiga. Work on
the two companies was immediately hard, and Priority
I gave the Amiga. However, the album The Way on
Heavens Gate has already been written when I have two
computer was ... Then it has become more
less, and had to abandon the Spectrum.

Q> 6. It is known that you're one of the closest
kungfu friends and heard a lot of his music that nobody else 
heard (extended only 4 tracks Kung Fu: in a newspaper, it 
seems, Proton, as well as Enl97 and CC999. None digital kung fu 
is not Moscow known). Stayed Do you have at least some

Archives of this music and could you it
give the public?
A> I think so. The problem with copyright.
Kung Fu is not greedy, but without his consent as a
make it uncomfortable. I have a dozen
its smart melodies and drive 3 digital music. In the original, 
he drives 10-30, scored DMM compositions. Among Moscow 
spektrumistov should be those who had music transcribed. I'm 
afraid I do not remember the names of - It was so long ago ...

Q> Y Vlodek not.
A> By the way, how is he? Last personally saw him in 1999 
Bytefall. Q> Vlodek lives in the same place. I saw him every 
time he was in Moscow (3 times I was there this year and last). 
With him rode / IC. He's there a lot of pictures,

published a review in Nikrone (# 127) and
Paragraph (# 21). Nikron now leaves only
over large festivaley.No Vlodek More
produced papers on political topics, "20"
(4 or 5 rooms) and the "noosphere" (a number).
There's a shell of its authorship, as opposed to
"Nikrona. And he writes only in Gens, as I
it may persuade transfer to the Alasm:)
A> Incorrigible spektrumist =)
Q> More or less I just know it,
Shiru Otaku, Cr0acker'om and EA.
A> Croacker'a do not know.
I think that EA no special music kung fu. As
in all, I guess.
Q> Croacker of NedoPC team, they produce
Spectrum of iron in Moscow: IDE-controller, computers ATM turbo 
2 and still chtoto. In absentia - with AIG, Spencer'om, Mac 
Buster'om and Ivan Roschin. Does anyone of them

there?
A> Here's Spencer can sprosit.On with Kung Fu
spoken, if I did not get them mixed up.
Q> I forward your question Vlodek, Spencer
him to the wire.
A> Yes, just remember that someone from Moscow
Ex-zx-net'ovtsev rewrote his entire
collection.
Q> Wlodek sent me a lot of digitals
Kunf'a, but I'm more interested on-int:)
A> Chipushek a kung fu was very little.
Q> Well, at least 10 must have been?

Q> Of course, it's better to steal it from the author.
Discs can cover from long storage.
But Kung Fu is well written music, judging by the surviving 
tracks (they turned out to be 6, not 4 - even in the largest 
collection of Newart'a who gathered on the grains of 15,293 AY 
/ YM track). A> We must be on my drives his watch.

We were friends with him before and twisted friend
other music on the phone :-) But again
I say - smart compositions, Anton was
quite a bit - mostly digital.

A> By the way, a complete collection of my music
Have Slavka Kalinin.
Q> This Newart is:) He is my / IC has recorded a CD with part 
of its archive and is not ordered distribute.

A> He also has a complete collection of music dr Titus, that 
until recently it was simply impossible to find.

Q> I copied it on CD only 1 Mouzon Titus'a: (
A> = clinging)
Q> He does not distribute this collection, written off under my 
honest slovo.Interesno, why did he hide it:) Sergey Bulba, for 
example, because it does not believe in the existence 
collection. 

Q> 7. Did you find kungfu after
he returned from the army? What were the results?
A> He told me zvonil.My talked for a while
poproschalis.S and since then has not heard.
Q> I could not from Moscow to his call, I tried 2 times on 
different days. May Do you think I was unlucky, and he was 
away, and might, the phone has changed? Long distance I do not

'll take, I do not Newart ...
A> You know, people change with time. I
changed, and Anton too. We are now quite
different, and I would not like to call him,
although, perhaps, soberus.U him in the middle
November birthday, must b pozdravit.Tolko so I forgot exactly 
when ... 

Q> 8. Is it true that you had to write music on AY for $ $ $?
(This is from the rumor;))
A> No. Not for one song I did not get
fee, as I pomnyu.Eto on Amiga was, and
it is not special.

Q> 9. You're more likely to answer letters or skipaesh them? 
You would agree to release his fidoshnogo address?

A> Fidoshnogo addresses I have since been
ignominiously kicked out for systematic
nezabor mail :-) Time is really on
Fido's not. But my email is open to all:
visualmusic@mail.ru. I also have available
site, where I post my work (coming soon
and ZX lay out, most likely, all the work):
http://visual.1mig.net

Q> 10. What is your middle name? And Kung Fu?
A> N. We have :-) Kung Fu ... Eeee ...
Railievich, I think, or something like that.
Q> Check all the same, I added to the list
this information. At the same, in which 908
man:)
A> Well, Dad had Rail. Therefore, Railievich ...
Q> By the way, AY composers are now 971, soon after 1000 
exceeded %))))) 

Q> 11. You would be willing to reveal something of
History of Moscow AY scene?
A> I do not mind :-) Only disclose something
:-) All is not much we already know :-) If
something specifically interested - ask.
Q> 11.1. Is it known who was the first composer AY in Moscow?
A> Oh, I'm afraid that nobody knows. But one of the first 
Moscow, whom I heard was KENT. It was in 1994 ...


Q> 11.2. With what was due a temporary renaming MIC'a to Moby? 
(By the way, his middle name I do not find it.) Is available if 
he Now for correspondence?

A> Maybe for some, too proekta.Ili
decided banal nickname change to a more interesting, and then 
razdumal.Naschet correspondence - I do not know. They KSA, now 
a hefty pot-bellied men with serious things (I saw this picture 
recently with bezdnika KSA, which I showed KANO - it and learn 
something difficult). Although you can try. But I personally 
have no MIC'a, or KSA do not know.

Q> Interesting situation:) It would seem that masters - a 
narrow circle - everyone knows each other;) A> Nothing special. 
Just as they were before appeared on the scene only later 
znachitelno.Ya come, and more isolated in the KSA with byl.No

their time a little talked to Enlight
'97 ...

Q> 11.3. Is the track MIC'a "SHUT ME
AND HURRY!!! "Remix (where?), Or it
original composition?
A> I have not heard. Came out, then try
answer. Memory for music I have a good.
Q> Flies (1.stp). I remember how I long searched for the 
author, on the MIC 'as well, it does not look like! Thought, 
Zhenya and Silent ... A> A little later, just listen and 
skazhu.Poka no time - I even on your letter, the second

Day replied.

Q> 11.4. Are you familiar with Eldar (batkovichem) Agayev - and 
available for correspondence is he? A> A very unpleasant man. 
Was familiar with him a couple of minutes, and the impression 
of himself, he produced bad. Well, my friend at

He worked in his time. Eldar Spectrum worked not because of 
enthusiasm, but with the aim of making money. Now I think he it 
is not interesting. Although I could be wrong - this is just my 
point of view. 

Q> 11.5. A similar question about Alexboy -
Alexander (batkovicha) Kulagina (which
wrote music for THD). Well, if you do
very few people know personally, it simply listed
:)
A> do not know.

Q> 11.6. Muscovites whether lpv (Paul (batkovich) Letyagin, 
demo mtv mix), fantomassoft (First name unknown, probably, 
renamed asman / proxium), Oleg (batkovich) Kuznetsov

(Music to the game tubemix), magic-studio (the name
unknown), subzero (mt-soft, first name unknown), superfly / 
diamond (first name unknown)? A> These do not know :-) You can 
connect to EA - he can no longer tell. I just Moscow to 
zx-coterie relations have not, I am something like separate the 
musician was :-) Well, maybe with Extreme and talked with 
personal acquaintances ZX. Q> And what his box?

A> Oh, you know, speak somewhere, I can not
find. Try a Vlodek ask.
Q> Now I ask ...

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Q> 12. Where can I find your picture? "Interview with a 
photograph is better than no pictures ... A> Yes, for God's 
sake. On my site and full-face and profil.Razve that erotic 
photos is not enough ;-) Q> I'm going to kick inetchikov 
friends ... Q> I found your pictures, look at the ZX

you'll be about as (png attached)
A> Cool. Looks like :-)

Q> Most likely I will have only one
attempt to break into your address t.k.obychno
the second time mailru marks fidoshny
address as a spammer and kills all the traffic from it. Maybe 
you have an email address on another domain?

A> visual@comail.ru, but there a lot of spam
prihodit.Poetomu in sabzh Write something
the original, so I did not immediately erased :-)

Q> Do you read anything in history?
A> When at school - it was interesting.
Not now. The history is necessary in order (IMHO)
to analyze the events that make them
appropriate conclusions, and in the future not to step on the 
same grabli.A our society development occurs in a spiral - 
constantly similar problems faced in the past and nothing we 
learn - get the handle of the rake directly on the forehead. 
For example, a civilization: The Roman Empire - Greek Empire - 
Soviet Union - America. All except the last, collapsed already 
:-) And last, instead analyze the situation, too, is going to 
collapse ... And such situations mqnogo.Kogda realized this 
story is no longer I draw. Began to live by the principle

"Be-that-be."
Q> I once (when else was watching TV)
came across a movie called like
"The collapse of the empire." There, American authors
recognize that the death of civilization generally
preceded by a lack of discipline and expansion.
And clearly it shows the example of his
intellectuals. And sat down in history, because
that wanted to deny gravely dozen
Revisionist ...
A> For what?
Q>, for example, that the publication was. And such
people once again to kick did not hurt.

Q> And in general that he had read in the last, say,
2 years? (At least how many pieces of documents, kilobytes, or 
volumes.) A> I read a little fiction in

Recently, again because of vremeni.Poslednee that read - it's 
Remarque (3-4 novel somewhere). Until then - Richard Bach 
(almost total) Exupery (total) and Strugatsky brothers (books 
5-6). Fantasy dislike - read as a child :-) In all Zelazny was

guilty ... :-)
Q> I've been reading more:) At work, sometimes given a minute 
... This question I asked and AIG, and several lyudyam.Opyat 
for statistics. A feeling that people in our Time does not like 
to read, despite the abundance electronic documents.

A> Electronic documents and books to read not
love, poorly digested material, and the eyes are tired. But at 
work have much documents to read and write :-)

Q> But:

   1. Using one hand (second reference);
A> The support under the chin? =)
Q> Yes, your head might not fall out:) And to
spine is more relaxed.
Q> 2. No need to turn the pages, not
astray process;

   3. Easier to write (copy).
A> facilities, maybe a lot, but look at the
Monitor tires.
Q> Watching a monitor:) Just eyes
want to get used to 2 different monitors, and
have - at home and at work.

Q> How do you find in Moscow, and on what days /
watch? As I learned from experience, important
setting the address, which influences the decision: go /
do not go - it's part of the city. But ul-domkvartira not 
interfere! A> You can find me at the weekend, but not for the 
fact I'll be home (understandably). Oh, and by

weekdays after 21. :-) I live in Mitino, it
Northwest of the city. In principle, if there was
would be in Moscow gathering spektrumistov (only without
indiscriminate getting drunk ;-)), I can
have visited it.
Q> Well, it's a question for Moscow spektrumistam:) I am in 
Moscow with the station going to Shiru Otaku (Nikitinskaya 
st.), And then to Vlodek (Schelkovskoe highway). At the same 
time Moscow I ends ... until they can be reached on foot,

and all of Moscow for the day is not even on istopaesh
Metro: (But still, tell me mail:) In parallel, THE ANALYSIS AIG 
did not say the address because it always takes off and changes 
flats. Similarly, he said to KSA, although not very clearly ...

A> ********* *****, ** Dr., Apt ** (not for publication, 
naturally). Q> Uh-huh.

And I / IC talked on his cell with by Ivan Bean, it even 
stronger encrypted :)))) 

Q> And, of course, readers are interested,
When's your birthday and how old are you
banging:)
A> Birthday my interesting day:
23.02. Well, I was born in 1980, therefore, I am now 24 years 
old ... Almost a third life already lived :-) I can still say 
that I work as an engineer in the billing company.